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| UpdatedAn emotional One Nation leader Pauline Hanson masses her candidates for the WA election on the steps of State Parliament, urging them to "speak up" ahead of the March poll.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, one-nation, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFollow the live scores, stats and commentary as Australia takes on Pakistan in the third ODI of the five-match series at the WACA.
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A 53-year-old man pleads guilty in the Perth District Court to luring away two young children who were at a North Perth care facility and sexually assaulting them.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, wa
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Pauline Hanson is confident her One Nation party can win up to six seats at the West Australian election, but the Queensland senator will not say where she will be directing preferences.
Topics: elections, one-nation, perth-6000, wa
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West Australian Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt's supporters are welcoming his new ministry but say he would be well qualified to become the federal Indigenous affairs minister, replacing Senator Nigel Scullion.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, federal-government, parliament, wa, australia
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| UpdatedPolice search a suburban Perth home owned at the time of the Claremont serial killings in the 1990s by Bradley Robert Edwards, the man accused of two of the murders.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, huntingdale-6110, perth-6000, claremont-6010, wa
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| UpdatedThey may be slow-moving and somewhat sluggish, but 150 new species of snail have been discovered by scientists in Australia's far north — proving they are surprisingly well-travelled.
Topics: animal-science, animals, broome-6725, wa
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| UpdatedWA Premier Colin Barnett rules out any attempt to ban Muslims from wearing burkas, but says he would prefer "that type of clothing" was not worn in Australia.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, discrimination, law-crime-and-justice, wa
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Fewer West Australians fell victim to fraud last year, but a sharp increase in technology and investment losses is causing concern, with those over the age of 55 most vulnerable.
Topics: consumer-protection, people, fraud-and-corporate-crime, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedThe WA Nationals want to use funds from their proposed state mining tax to resurrect a long-touted plan to connect Perth's passenger rail network to the regional city of Bunbury.
Topics: government-and-politics, rail-transport, bunbury-6230, mandurah-6210, wa
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A WA father is found guilty of inflicting serious head injuries on his seven-and-a-half-month-old son, after conceding he probably smacked him "a bit too hard" when the child was crying and would not take a bottle.
Topics: assault, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, merredin-6415, wa, kellerberrin-6410
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| UpdatedThe time is ripe for fruit flies in WA's Carnarvon, with thousands of sticky mangoes hanging on trees and covering the ground triggering a surge in numbers.
Topics: fruit, agricultural-crops, rural, pest-management, fruits, gardening, carnarvon-6701, wa
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Construction of the powerful Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, which is being built to look back through billions of years of the universe's history, is on the "home straight".
Topics: science-and-technology, space-exploration, astronomy-space, geraldton-6530, wa
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| UpdatedWest Australian Aboriginal MP Ken Wyatt is the first Indigenous person to be promoted to the ministry, as part of Malcolm Turnbull's frontbench reshuffle, in what fellow frontbencher Greg Hunt calls a "long overdue" move.
Topics: federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia, wa
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| UpdatedAuthorities are growing frustrated with people continuing to drive across fast-moving creek crossings, as hundreds of millimetres of rain swells river catchments across WA's north.
Topics: weather, floods, kununurra-6743, wa
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Topics: vegetables, agricultural-crops, rural, arthur-river-6315, wa
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A WA company has planted its first horticultural crop using Canadian greenhouse technology, hoping to bring fresh vegetables to the wheatbelt.
Topics: vegetables, agricultural-crops, rural, arthur-river-6315, wa
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| UpdatedAFL player Michael Johnson makes a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court accused of assaulting a man in a kebab shop, who was reportedly filming while the player was in the store with his pants pulled down.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, assault, leederville-6007, wa
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Record high prices encourages WA farmers to mix up their sheep operations.
Topics: wool, agricultural-crops, markets, agricultural-marketing, agribusiness, rural, business-economics-and-finance, tincurrin-6361, wa, australia, wickepin-6370
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The WA Greens will go to the state election campaigning for the rapid creation of a fully independent rural fire service and improved fire standards for new housing developments in high-risk areas.
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A statewide research project aimed at providing more support to grandparents who care for their grandchildren full-time is launched in Western Australia — and for Lorraine Fitzgibbons, it could make a big difference.
Topics: family-and-children, carers, older-people, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's Environment Minister stands by the Government's decision to back Canadian miner Cameco's Yeelirrie uranium project, against the advice of its own environmental watchdog.
Topics: uranium-mining, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, environmental-impact, kalgoorlie-6430, wiluna-6646, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government promises to introduce legislation to scrap the six-year statute of limitations on when victims of child abuse can take civil against their perpetrators or institutions if it is re-elected.
Topics: child-abuse, family-and-children, sexual-offences, wa
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| UpdatedSeveral new persons of interest are identified in the unsolved murder of 11-year-old schoolboy Gerard Ross in the Perth suburb of Rockingham in 1997, police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, rockingham-6168, wa, baldivis-6171
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| UpdatedThe family of a former WA footballer who was left permanently disabled by a car crash six years ago, loses their final bid to sue the driver for compensation, after a Perth court threw out their appeal.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, law-crime-and-justice, health, wa